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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading






2. r-controlled syllable






3. Wide Range Achievement Test






4. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.






5. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






6. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language






7. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.






8. Final stable syllable

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9. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.






10. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.






11. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.






12. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.






13. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound






14. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet






15. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.






16. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.






17. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






18. Participate in classroom discussions - make speeches/presentations - use tape records during lectures - read text out loud - create musical jingles - create mnemonics to aid memorization - discuss ideas verbally






19. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.






20. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.






21. A significant unit of visual shape. We use the visual shape as to cover not only writing - but also any other shape perceived by the eye which is a visible representation of a unit of speech. A single graphic letter or letter cluster which represents






22. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.






23. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy






24. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.






25. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality






26. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.






27. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.






28. A word that is immediately recognized as a whole and does not require decoding to identify. A sight word may or may not be phonetically regular.






29. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.






30. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.

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31. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.






32. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy






33. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time






34. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the






35. Is a type of test - assessment - or evaluation which yields an estimate of the position of the tested individual in a predefined population - with respect to the trait being measured. This estimate is derived from the analysis of test scores and poss






36. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.






37. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example






38. His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what reading is - how it works and what it does for the mind.






39. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability






40. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents






41. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.






42. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests






43. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.






44. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.






45. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language






46. State Board of Eduation






47. The teacher musts be adept at individualized teaching based on continual assessment of the student's needs. Content should be mastered to a level of automaticity.






48. A pattern of letters (found in a single syllable) which occurs frequently together. The pronunciation of at least one of the component parts is unexpected or the letters stand in an unexpected sequence ( ar - er - ir - or - us - qu - wh)






49. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






50. A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired - usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learn